Re: unable to startx on Compaq
Liudmila Yafremava <liudmila@spine.npa.uiuc.edu> writes:
> Hello!
Hi,
> Videocard memory unknown: compaq does not provide that information.
Try to use 'lspci -v' to see what kind of videocard you have on this machine.
> When I reconfigure the mouse and test it with
> XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new
> I see a purely black screen, and sometimes gray screen, no X for mouse,
> and when I try to exit, ctrl-alt-bckspc does not work.
Try ctrl-alt-f1 to go back to text mode (But probably will not work if the
ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't)
> reboot, and that breaks something in the kernel, so the computer suggests
> me to do a manual repair, but I do not know how.
Could you type the original message ? The manually repair is probably a fsck
message, so you can try to boot in single user, and then do a fsck on the
corrupted partition.
> Thank you much,
You're welcome.
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